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Flashing Lights
Your home can be just as multidimensional as you are—conservative and professional by day, edgy and free-spirited by night. Philippe Boulet isn’t a conventional interior designer, and his Lumintherapy creations are far from ordinary. Boulet, a French designer, is continuously inspired by what he calls a “magical atmosphere,” and in that place he creates furniture for…
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Feel the FLO
Sure, you’ve already got DVR, live-streaming on the Internet and, if things really get bad, a Twitter feed to help you stay current when it comes to keeping up with what’s happening on TV these days. But the reality is you’re not home as much as you used to be and, in some cases, sticking…
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This Isn’t A Computer Scan
Everyone has that shoebox: The one on top of the closet, behind your old comforter, but in front of those books from college. Inside the box? A gang of photos from the pre-digital era, with millions of negative strips to match. You know the ones you have to hold up to the light to see,…
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Can Blacks and White Progressives Live Together?
Writer/blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates reminded me of an interesting cyber-discussion happening right now over at New Geography. And you know I love a good cyber-chat to fill up my think tank before the weekend. If you don’t know already, writer Aaron M. Renn scribed a great piece called “The White City”. It examines the rise in…
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Despite Hard Times, People Opt To Celebrate Halloween
Forgive me for not being caught up in the spirit of the boo, but I haven’t dressed up for Halloween since I was six-years-old. I dressed up as Buster Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures. At the time (and probably still now) my teeth went perfectly with Buster’s aesthetic. However, since then I haven’t paid any…
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Obamastan
To hear conservative critics tell it, the United States had everything in Afghanistan under control until President Barack Obama took office and messed with George W. Bush’s ingenious combination of open-ended warfare and diplomacy-by-silent treatment. Unchastened by the hasty run-up to the Iraq War, for a solid month, an assortment of foreign-policy players has tried…
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Tracy Morgan: Man on Fire
The hipsters are musing over Tracy Morgan’s recent appearances on Terry Gross and at a reading for his book, wondering why he is so “unstable.” I think it’s sad that people expect him to be pulling his shirt off and talking about malt liquor all the time. Even Richard Pryor was occasionally somber and introspective. …
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Check It Out: Kweli Says Kanye Is a Rascal
During the interview portion of a Noisemakers event in his honor in New York, rapper Talib Kweli tells tales of the early Kanye West on tour. Obviously, these hijinks include missed tour busses and wheel chair shenanigans. The video, courtesy of Rap Radar, can be seen here. How this guy doesn’t get punched daily remains…
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Listen Up! More Colleges Look to Gov't for Student Loans
Colleges looking to help students in a financial squeeze are increasingly turning to the federal government for support. From NPR: For decades, the federal student loan program has paid private lenders and banks a subsidy for loans they make to college students. But the Obama administration wants to bypass banks and have the federal government…
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Hate Isn't a Crimal Justice Problem
The Senate has finally passed its anti-gay hate crime bill and President Obama will certainly sign it, no doubt to much fanfare. In the words of Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese, it’ll be “our nation’s first major piece of civil rights legislation” for LGBT Americans. And at this seemingly historic moment, the burning question for…